December 2010
“I don’t want to read people one-upping one another on this Game anymore. I want...”
– Nitsuh Abebe, arguing about class and race and Vampire Weekend on Tumblr. I Approve.
“Between narrow walls we walk—insanity on one side, & fat dullness on...”
– Emerson. I’m treading lightly, these days.
“It’s like I used to love everything but Ariel Pink and now I love only...”
1 tag
What are the greatest wizard battles? →
“Overall, 2010 was not a great movie year.”
– Roger Ebert
A TO-DO LIST, IN MOVIE TITLES
* CARLOS, whatever that is
* THE GHOST WRITER, sure
* Ohhh, yeah, WINTER’S BONE !
* THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT, that, too
* GREENBERG? Do I have to?
* Yeah, I missed INCEPTION this summer, sorry.
* TRUE GRIT, of course
* Oh my god, Ryan Gosling’s in BLUE VALENTINE?
* Might as well try to stay awake for SWEETGRASS, it’s on Watch Instant.
* Um, 127 HOURS sounds like...
THIS NEW CHAT, YOU GUYS
jw: Okay, so Z--- was working the AM.
jw: Said it was slow, he played guitar for about 8 hours straight.
jw: Is it really just me who has always thought this whole playing guitar at the desk is really fucking weird?
me: Yeah, it's creepy for sure.
bw: He wears baggy jeans, doesn't he?
lj: has really long nails
lj: TO PLAY GUITAR WITH
jw: Like oh, I'm staying at a hotel and don't have any toothpaste, damn. Better ask the front desk if they have any. What's this? Now I have to interrupt a man gingerly playing the alto sax, great.
“I apparently copied “Following the death of his Blackfoot paramour, Silver...”
– bw
:( →
o->-
bw: You're just a passing fad. The love she has for me is forEVER.
me: Yeah, it's sisterly love though
me: Mine's sisterwife love
bw: o-G<
me: Haha, is that hands on hips?
bw: Nope, that's jerking off
bw: o-C<
bw: That's hands on hips
1 tag
BLOGGING BLOTTER
* Middlefield Road and Marsh Road, 10:45am: A 35-year-old man was wearing a cowboy hat and reporting smoking a cigarette near an open electrical box. Police officers determined he was a signal maintenance employee.
* 500 Block El Camino Real, 9:01am: A ladder was found next to a car.
* Marsh Road and Middlefield Ave., 6:17pm: A resident said a young boy in a soccer uniform was walking alone.
*...
TO-DO LIST
lj: Get Miranda, get Lisa, get Corks, get drunk, get waxed, get more wasted, get sisterwives, get pursewine, get 3D glasses, get our minds blown at the movies, get more drunk
me: add play street fighter
“I think the idea of snowmen bothers us, specifically in a literary context, is...”
– YouTube comments
SPOILED
me: DARTH VADER WAS A SLED
me: BRUCE WILLIS IS KILLED BY WATER
bw: NEO KILLS DUMBLEDORE
jw: HOPE ACTUALLY FLOATS
This song, guys →
“Best thing about his name is the comma”
– bw
“CHAD FULTON
Abstinent”
– (via chadfulton)
It’s hard having two Tumblrs. Sorry to everyone I let down.
The Myth of the Food Desert →
While it’s demonstrably true that fresh produce in West Oakland isn’t as readily available as he says it is in West Harlem, what he says about palates really rings true to me. That’s why creating demand for healthy food is at least as important as providing a supply. (Guys, this is what OBUGS does!)
1 tag
“I heard there was gonna be a flash mob and I thought there would be fighting and...”
– my dad
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-12-12) →
Mirah (1)
Jay-Z (1)
Papercuts (1)
Mississippi Sheiks (1)
Marnie Stern (1)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
“Want mail? A guide to cyberdating
Step 1: Try a chat room or a matchmaking Web...”
– I googled Greg Kinnear and this was on the first page.
“Enough is enough. How much do you want? How much do you need? How many yachts...”
– Bernie Sanders, I-VT
My mom has a Google Alert on me, and she called to... →
“Ese tipo es Bi-norma.”
– This is the best thread on Reddit I’ve seen in a whiiiiiiiiiiiiiile — untranslatable phrases.
PLANS
bw: He's going to move to Austin and make handmade leather goods.
me: He's going to move to Tuscon and review student films for an unread alt-weekly.
bw: He's going to move to Corpus Christi and sell boleros
me: He's going to move to Poughkeepsie and work at a hotel
bw: He's going to move to Findlay and work at a Foot Locker
me: He's going to move to Frankenmuth and make sauerkraut
bw: He's going to move to Baltimore and be shot
me: He's going to move to New York and give tours of the Staute of Liberty's crown
me: He's going to move to Cambodia and make Nikes
bw: It's decided.
“When Howard Hawks started making Scarface in 1931, the commission was concerned...”
– Neurocriminology in Prohibition-era New York
